Kent Sorenson pleads guilty to accepting payments to switch support

anyone that wants to get PAID for an endorsement is nothing more than a tick and has no principles.

You either support someone or you don't. And anyone on any campaign PAYING for an endorsement is a shitty campaign manager!
 
green73 said:
What you post in jest just highlights further the madness of politics and central planning.
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I've gotten neg repped for it before and will probably again this time...

People call us Paulbots for a reason - we like to see no fault in our own messiah. But I have always said, sometimes his choice of people surrounding him has pointed to a lack of discernment. While grace and forgiveness can be good for personal relationships, it doesn't work as well in politics. And family should not be running the campaign.
 
Iowa Senator, I'm from Iowa and I think of Senator Grassley and Democrat Harkin. They have both been there forever. This guy must be really old.

He is from Milo, never heard of Milo, Iowa. Maybe former State Senator would have been a better title. That's what the Des Moines Register calls him.
 
R.G said:
Iowa Senator, I'm from Iowa and I think of Senator Grassley and Democrat Harkin. They have both been there forever. This guy must be really old.

He is from Milo, never heard of Milo, Iowa. Maybe former State Senator would have been a better title. That's what the Des Moines Register calls him.
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He was a State Senator.
 
Where's our resident expert?

Teh Collinz said:
This is just the way the game has to be played. The main point to take away from this is that gains were made. We need to raise more funds through those that have an excellent record of collecting them. This just goes to show how strong we have become.
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One thing is certain a Ron Paul presidency would be going into its first scandal. "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
 
"After Sorenson publicly switched his endorsement, Paul’s campaign routed the state senator a total of $73,000 in 2012, transferring the payments through a film production company and another company to conceal the intended recipient, according to court filings. Sorenson wanted the payments kept secret because of Iowa Senate ethics rules that prohibit sitting senators from accepting payments from a political campaign, according to court papers.

Smoking gun right there. The money was laundered. Wasn't a jewlery store involved too?

Sorenson is facing five to 20 in a Federal pen. You think he plead guilty so he could do some easy time? My guess is the Feds will be happy see him pay a fine and pick up trash on the highway for a year. They've got bigger fish to fry.

If I'm Jesse Benton I'm asking Mitch for some D.C legal referrals right about now. Might as well get something out being a glorified gofer.

"Yup, this sort of thing will destroy Rand if it happens again."

It will happen again if he continues to employ the same people. I think Rand can do better than Benton and Tate and the parasites at Sabre Communications.
 
I just remembered the Weigel article on Paul Inc.

That became more important in 2011. Iowa State Sen. Kent Sorenson, one of the candidates aided by National Right to Work’s 2010 letter program, became a power player in the state’s Republican caucuses. Sorenson endorsed Michele Bachmann, and his Grassroots Strategies group started receiving monthly $7,500 checks from her campaign, which wasn’t even legal in Iowa. He could, in other words, be bought. Later in 2011, according to some documents leaked by Fusaro and some obtained by an investigator in Iowa, the Iowa Gun Association’s Aaron Dorr drafted a proposal under which Sorenson could switch his endorsement to Ron Paul. Dorr’s memo was addressed to John Tate, who’d temporarily left the Campaign for Liberty to manage the 2012 Paul effort. The plan would require Sorenson being paid off secretly.

“The money for salary and the PAC needs to be paid in advance,” wrote Dorr in the Oct. 29, 2011 memo. “To be blunt, there is an issue of trust involved, likely on both sides, and as a result KS, etc. needs to have the financial side met in advance.” In return, “KS would naturally speak at RP events in Iowa and be visible with him.”

Dorr’s plan called for the Paul campaign to pay nearly a quarter-million dollars: $100,000 for a PAC to be run by Sorenson, $8,000 a month for the senator, and $5,000 a month for Aaron’s brother Chris Dorr, who was Sorenson’s clerk. Had the plan been carried out, it would have tied the Paul campaign to a career-ending scam.

But it wasn’t carried out, at least not to completion. Under investigation in 2013, Sorenson handed over to investigators a $25,000 check from Ron Paul’s deputy campaign manager Dimitri Kesari, dated Dec. 26, 2011. Sorenson had endorsed Paul two days later, but the check had never been cashed. Sorenson had previously said as much in a secretly taped phone call with Fusaro, in which he revealed his intention to “give it back,” wondering only whether he should “hold onto it so I have something over” Kesari. Drew Ivers, who introduced Sorenson at the endorsement event, says he was shocked when the senator showed up.

“I’ve been around for a long time, and I can smell out people pretty good,” says Ivers. “I put distance between Ron Paul and Kent Sorenson and Aaron Dorr.”
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...il_inside_paul_inc_s_fundraising_machine.html
 
Amusing that this sort of thing is entirely legal AFTER you're elected - we call it lobbying!
 
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I was just thinking, is it any wonder why "money bombs" fail so completely any more? Things like this are almost like getting an IV full of apathy, and pumping it full drip right into my veins.

This just infuriates me!!!
 
randomname said:
Washington Times says he pleaded guilty to "accepting a bribe". How rare, a politician facing jail time over accepting a bribe! Why this guy, and why now? This story is already being used to hurt McConnell and discredit those pesky Pauls :)

Former Iowa state senator pleads guilty to accepting bribe in 2012 presidential campaign
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/27/former-iowa-state-senator-pleads-guilty-accepting-/
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If the end result of this is that McConnell loses in November, that's more than a fair trade off.
 
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